You've seen millions of them and twitched as you wondered what sort of fanbrat was waiting you to read their profile or strories. They're eveywhere, multiple X's, hyphens, misspellings and Mrs.(insert imaginary character here) can be found in or as usernames by the dozens in almost any fandom. What ones have you found?

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Agree-2-Dissagree

I respect your right to be creative but is spelling out a three letter word, using proper spaces and correct spelling too much to ask?

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tokiluv

I wonder if she realizes that 'love' is only on letter longer than the text talk alternative? Probably not.

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Useful Idiot 516

I highly doubt that.

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DietCokeIsMyLife

Must be a pretty bland life.

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AReasonToSwim

There's a shark after you.

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Paul's Secret Loverr

How can you have an imaginary lover?

Can you believe that most of these were found on the same page?

4shadowedice4 is pretty fucking dire, it just screams man boobed nerd wearing some kind of plastic cape and shouting about lightning bolts, before going home, grabbing a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a mountain dew and decending to the depths of Mom's basement, booting up the ol' pc amid piles of crusty socks and discarded kleenex only to discover that their in depth defence of some unreadable fantasy claptrap has been met with the hooted derision of the same forum members named in the above post causing an immediate desire for internet revenge, only not where they might see it but elsewhere, another forum, quiet, intelligent, thoughtful, receptive to dork rage, and so the plan forms to start a thread suggesting that usernames which are at most slightly unimaginative are the worst thing since the world's greatest living hedgehog whisperer Knorg forgot how to use full stops and settled for an entirely out of place ellipsis...

That in the right ballpark?

Knorg wrote:

Blah blah blah, something about revenge, blah blah blah, something about punctuation. That in the right ballpark?

Actually you struck out three times and were sent back to the bench.

1. I'm a female

2. I don't even read comics, much less wear a cape.

3. I moved out and began living on my own as soon as I graduated high school when I was eighteen.

And just for the hell of it:

4. I have never spoken to those users in my life and this is the only forum I use.

5. 'Hedgehog whisper'? At least pick a cooler animal.

Yeah, right. Keep dreaming!

Edit: ...that there is any animal cooler than the hedgehog.

OMG LIKE WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF NAME IS CYBERWULF LIKE SO LAAAAME CAN'T EVEN SPELL "WOLF" HURRRRR LOOK AT ME BEING ALL EDGY AND SELF-DEPRECATING RUSH TO IMITATE ME LIKE THE SHEEPLE YOU ARE

Hey, hey guys... about that whole "membership stagnation problem" discussed here and there? How about actually treating new people with some respect at least until they can settle?

Or at least common courtesy?

FUCK YOU SPOOBY

Doesn't sound like something I'd be interested in.

You want the good stuff you gotta pay.

Ooh! Zinger! If only you'd been unleashing the a-list gags in the first post instead of such gems as, uh,

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DietCokeIsMyLife

Must be a pretty bland life.

Must be a pretty bland life.

Must be a pretty bland life.

Yeah.

I guess we just gonna have to keep you all riled up.

I wasn't trying to be funny with my last comment, I was telling the truth.

Then I have a solution! Next time you want to be serious, try to be funny. Next time you want to be funny, try to be serious. Based on your perfomance in the thread, it's a surefire winner.

Hmm, of course. Well, it would appear you've officially bored me, have a good day, Knorg.

Come back funny y'hear!

Hahaha we are never going to recover the membership levels we had back in the day anyways. We are basically just a cozy lil circle jerk up in here.

ALSO: those sigs are pretty great, I just lloled over here fr realsies, grumble-bee.

You have some of NR saved, yeah? I was wondering if maaaaybe you had my snark of that one toad fic with the OC girl and the metric ton of rape=love?

Oh, it's just that I've been hanging out on places like weepingcock at LJ lately. You know, places where they still have fun. Remember when we used to have that instead of just bashing each other?

Fun? At Whygodwhy? Doesn't ring any bells. Except for the fun of bashing each other, I suppose. Or the fun I occasionally have seeing how many replies I can taunt out of the unwary. Enormous fun, that. I'm sure he'll be back 'fore long despite the flounce post too. I'm that damn good.

So... rings a bell and a half then.

What sort of fun were you meaning? 96 posts in three years consisting entirely of "Guys, don't post like this, post like on this other site instead cos that would be fun." presumably. Anyway, while I can't claim to be an expert, except for folks like me poking in half-seriousness for a reply, and Wulf/Harley's star crossed romance ("Puck and Juliet") I don't see a whole lotta bashing going on. Except when someone suggests to Spotts that Babylon 5 was better than Star Trek. Hooboy.

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Ahhh look at this I made a post. Didn't make a funny, eh. Sorry

Really only worthy of note when you're, for a completely random example, trying to make a post mocking or even resort to sarcasm about usernames, that, through the completely ordinary nature of the usernames comes across as "I'VE BEEN BUTTHURT! VENGEANCE IS MINE!" sort of thing.

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4shadowedice4 wrote: Knorg wrote: You want the good stuff you gotta pay. I try to avoid buying cheap things. I'll admit it. I loled.

Don't admit it! You'll only enrage him further!

You know what? Fine! Lets have fun!

Godawful usernames, people! Go! Go! Go! I won't mock. Unless you mention Sheik Yerbouti, which was a classic Zappa album before it was a username. Featuring What Ever Happened to All the Fun in the World.

SO! FUN!

Yeah, alright. To the oldthreadsmobile!